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...index of personality
...Spiegel, 63, a clinical professor at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, measuring the eye roll is no mere cocktail-party game but "a pivotal clinical sign" of how susceptible a person is to being hypnotized. Even more surprising, he says it is also a rough index of some basic personality traits, including suggestibility and gullibility...
...Kids into cartoons and photography can study film animation, make paper movie machines and paint with the sun. From Kite Flying to the less earthbound joys of Star Trekking and Rocketry, the Whole Kids Catalog consistently amuses and informs. It could use one visual aid: the book has no index. Still, its 250 pages are so entrancing that the searcher for any particular item will find that getting there is more than half...
...playing Space Mission at a Broadway arcade. One of New York City's most diligent pin pushers, Buckley addresses the machine in the classic stance. With body about 1½ ft-away from the cabinet, one foot slightly ahead of the other, weight leaning on the arms with index finger on the flipper button, he pulls the shooter gently and watches the ball rebound off the top arch. "This game rewards concentration, mastery of the technique of hand-eye coordination, a positive attitude," he observes. "You have got to lose yourself in it. That is the therapy...
...those that are wholly owned, while the Communists had their eye on all those in which the parent company's stake was greater than 50%. Business reacted to news of the impasse with jubilation: the next day stock prices on the stagnant Paris Bourse climbed 4%. Today the index stands almost 24% above its level last...